[ExI] CRACKPOTS (was electoral college)

[William Flynn Wallace]

What's wrong with a nose piercing?  That's tame.

Y'all come off as a bunch of reactionaries.
will

Piercings don't disgust me at all.  Mostly I find them funny - different
generations have to do stupid things to show that they are not like the
oldies.  Yeah, we did stupid things too - swallowing goldfish, stuffing
phone booths, etc.  And some I find really sad - these people are often
desperate to be noticed and deemed different from the rest, and then they
just do what all the others are doing - conforming to nonconformity in the
same old ways.  Trying too hard.

I repeat my idea:  if you want to be, or at least seem to be, really
different, don't do anything to your body at all, like the women in the
Aveeno ads - no visible makeup at all - very attractive.  Or at the other
end:  asymmetrical facial hair.  And for women:  shaved heads.  But that's
not new.  Now I do have to admit a slight disgust with arm pit hair - leg
hair not so bad.  I'll have to think some more about what women just won't
do to attract people, but I think nobody will ever have an answer to that.
OK, women, now attack!

Spike, just stare at them for a few seconds and then shake your head
sadly.  They will love you.

bill w

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What's wrong with a nose piercing?  That's tame.
>
> Y'all come off as a bunch of reactionaries.  Do you really forget what it
> was like to have older adults naysay the trends you were taking part in,
> only to have those trends become the mainstream?
>
> The world's greatest scientific geniuses, from Newton to Einstein, were
> spiritual people.  Science itself emerged from philosophy.
>
> Yet the scientific community today is often obsessed with believing their
> models are reality, even though the only constant this whole time has been
> the disproving of past models.
>
> Maybe that's why you guys only produced a Hawking, not a Newton or
> Einstein.  Thank god for the youth.
>
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